New York State’s highest court has agreed to hear arguments in a case aimed at shedding light on the failed prosecution of alleged Orthodox child molester Avrohom Mondrowitz.

Mondrowitz fled to Israel following his 1984 indictment on multiple counts of sexual abuse. Alleging that the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office had bowed to pressure from the Orthodox community in failing to vigorously pursue his extradition, journalist and attorney Michael Lesher has sought documents from the DA relating to the case under the state’s Freedom of Information Law.

The state’s highest court announced on April 28 that it would hear an appeal on an appellate court’s rejection of a lower court ruling ordering the DA’s office to release the documents.

Mondrowitz, a Brooklyn-based psychologist, was among the first of a series of high-profile rabbis or yeshiva teachers to be indicted on charges of sexual abuse that have rocked the Orthodox community in recent decades. Press reports have stated that the five-count indictment against him is based on complaints from more than 100 victims.

The law should stipulate that if the proof is there of the abuse then
the country of residence must automatically deport to the country where
the abuse took place. The key point is PROOF and then immediate action
to take place.

That was his front to gain the trust of parents and the boys. Neither is
he a rabbi, or ever functioned as one. He is a pervert who created a
persona to abuse boys. He is presently living under armed protection in
Jerusalem. The Israeli state has so far refused to permit his
extradition him to the USA.